Fluting-machine



l QC-.LBABGDGL Huizing-Machine. Ne. 224,323. Patented Feb. 10,1880.

UNITED v STATES PATENT OFFICE.

-FLu-TINVG- MAGHlNe' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,323, dated February 10, 1880.

I Application iled une 18, 187B. d

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. BABcocK,

of the city of Buffalo, iu the county of Erie,

and State ot' New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fluting-Ma! chines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying fluters it is ot' importance that the handleof the roller should be so arranged as to enable the operator to exert the requisite pressure with as little exertion as possible.

The object of my invention is to construct the handlel in such manner as to accomplish this result; and it consists in combining with the tluting-roller a U-shaped shank having openings in the ends ofits legs in which vturu the journals ot' the rollers, Aand having the handle arranged obliquely at the apex of the Ushaped shank, as will be hereinafter more,

Jr'ully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a sectional elevation ot' a liuting-niaohine provided with my improvements.

plan View of' the iiuting-roller. Y

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in both of the figures.

Fig. 2 is a top-l A rcpresents the base, provided with fa recess in its upper side for the reception of the lindrical roller, provided -ou its circumference with teeth or corrugationsn the usual form, and having journals e formed at its ends.v E

is the handle-shank, composed of two curved bars or arms joiniu g each other at anacute angle and straddlingl the journals ot' the roller. F is thehandle, secured to the shank E at the apex or the ,junction of the two arms constituting the shank, and arra-nged at an acute angle with reference to a line drawn from the roller, or so as to incline toward the roller. The arms of the shank are, toward their point of junction, curved upward, as clearly shown, s ofthat the upper surface 'ot' the shank, at the point where the handle is secured thereto, is at right angles to the axis of the handle.

IhisW peculiar construction of the shank and handle provides sufficient space between the handle and 'roller for the accommodation ot the hand of the operator, and at the same time brings the handle so close to the rollerA as to render the device very compact. It also enables the operator to move the roller back aud forth over the corrugated lbed with ease, and places the hand and wrist in the position in which they are least liable to become fatigued.

I claim as myfinventiou and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, withy the uting-roller l), of the U-shaped shank E and the handle F,

cliningtoward the roller, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as FRANK HIRsoH.

- apex of the shank to the center of the tluting-V secured to the shank Eat its apex and in! 

